Word generator

The word generator is used and configured in the modal to add a word.

The engine is a slightly modified version of fantasy name generator.

In a few words it worsk by creating patterns which randomly pick elements from your symbols to create new words.

Symbols

Each symbol contains a list of elements which can be randomly selected to be included in the output of the generator.

Each element can contain one or more characters.

Lingomancy checks all symbols to find any missing romanizations.

This check is just informative, no errors are generated if you don’t use all romanizations.

A pattern is a string of characters which is processed to generate random words based on the following rules:

Characters grouped between angle brackets (< and >) will be processed by the engine as described in these steps (You can think about the pattern already being surrounded by them)
Characters grouped between parentheses (( and )) won’t be processed and will be send to the output as they are.
A vertical bar (|) can be used to randomly select between choices in that group.
An exclamation point (!) can be used to capitalize the next element of the pattern (character, symbol, or group)
A tilde (~) can be used to capitalize the next element of the pattern (character, symbol, or group)
Any character used which is associated with a symbol will be replaced with an element from that symbol chosen at random.
Any other character will be send to the output as it is.

Let’s assume we have the following symbols configured:

This is the expected behavior of these patterns:

NVCAF: Will produce a word replacing each character for a random element of each corresponding symbol while having F at the end, since it doesn’t correspond to any configured symbol: nnopaF.
~<NVCAF>: Will produce a similar result as the previous example with all character in the reverse order: assuming the output would have been the same this would be Faponn.
!CV|Na(CV): Will produce a word as if the pattern was either !CV or Na(CV): - !CV Will behave as the first example with the first letter from C capitalized: Nnu. - Na(CV) Will produce a word with the first part from the symbol N, the character a as is (since there’s no symbol for this character), and the characters CV as they are grouped between parentheses (even when they represent symbols): maCV

Once you have configured the patterns and symbols you can use them to generate new words.

When you first open the modal, the generator will automatically select and generate words for the first pattern of the list.

You can change the pattern from the button “Patterns”.

To generate new words you need to click one of the two buttons:

will generate the amount of words in the field “Words to generate” minus the duplicate ones.

You then can click any of the words to place it in the “Current generated word” text box.
“Generate” will generate one word at a time and replace it in the “Current generated word” text box.